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PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

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MEETING OF APEIL 13, 1891

j The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois met in one of t h e parlors of the Lexington Hotel, in Chicago, at 8 o'clock p. m. Friday, April 13, 1894, pursuant to the following call:

URBANA, I I I . , April 6, 1894.

By order of the president, Mr. Graham, there will be a special meeting of the Board of Trustees of t h e University of Illinois, at the Lexington Hotel, Chicago, Friday evening, April 13, 1894, for these purposes: 1. To consider the regency question. 2. To transact other business, as found necessary. Bespectfully yours,

W . L . PlLLSBTJRY,

Secretary. There were present Messrs. Armstrong, Bryant, Bullard, Graham, McKay, McLean, Morgan, Morrison, and Raymond; absent, Governor Altgeld and Messrs. Gore and Raab. nAfter the call for the meeting had been read, the following committee report was presented: To the Board of Trustees. GENTLEMEN: Your committee appointed to confer with Dr. A S. Draper in regard to the regency of the. University, begs leave to report t h a t it visited Dr. Draper, in Cleveland, Ohio, and t h a t after full consideration, it recommends his appointment to the office of regent.

T. J. B U R R I L L , ) N E L S O N W. GRAHAM, > Committee. J. E. ARMSTRONG, )

On motion of Mr. McLean, the report of the committee was received. TSach member of the committee stated his reasons for joining in t h e report, and after some discussion, in which all the members of the board took part. Dr. Draper, who was at the hotel, was invited to confer with the board. When, after a conference of some length, Dr. Draper had retired, t h e report of the committee was unanimously adopted on motion of Mr. Bullard, it having first been amended by the addition of the words, "at a salary of $7,000 a year." On motion of Mr. Morgan, the committee which had visited Dr. Draper at Cleveland, was instructed to notify him of this action of the board. The following motion, offered by Mr. Morgan, was carried: : That the trustees and faculty of the University of Illinois extend a cordial invitation to Mrs. Potter Palmer to participate in the commencement exercises on the 6th of June next, and to deliver an address on t h a t occasion.

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